JorgeA Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 ^^ It would be interesting to learn how much malware today could affect, say, a Windows 98 system. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranceBB Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 (edited) It would be hilarious! I mean, seriously, think about it: you are surfing internet and you open an infected site and you get a malware. Then, the program autoextract itself and automatically set itself into the autoload folder, then it starts, and... °plin plon°, a pop-up appears saying: name of the malware.exe "error, API getthreadID failed to load". So you just have to search such a program with windows search and remove the malware. It would be really hilarious! XD Edited May 15, 2016 by FranceBB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 (edited) I should think that any OS that isn't mainstream is no longer the target for today's malware/virus authors, and so the "mainstream" malware, which most likely does pretty specific things crafted just for the systems on which it expects to infect, would likely not run successfully. That being said, the mainstream AV software makers have long since left behind definitions for malware that was only known to infect the older systems, just so they can rank highly in the AV comparison charts for speed and resource usage. I wonder if there has been a resurgence of older malware since the AV software stopped looking... -Noel Edited May 16, 2016 by NoelC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamTron Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 What's wrong with SP3? I have never noticed a performance drop when upgrading service packs, even on my Eee PC with its wimpy 900 MHz Celeron processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Nothing. It's great and it just works! Long live, XP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flasche Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Considering that one of the current requirements for packing Crayola crayons (at least locally) is the ability to competently use a windows 2000 and/or NT (4) computer, imo makes the XP obsolete question on a business level silly. (No I do not pack crayons fyi) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasyAcquiesce Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Kinda late The only issue related to Windows XP I'm experiencing is incapability of working with Samsung Galaxy phones even with Kies installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibya Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 (edited) 58 minutes ago, ~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ said: Kinda late The only issue related to Windows XP I'm experiencing is incapability of working with Samsung Galaxy phones even with Kies installed. WinUSB 2.0 is need to be installed with user mode driver framework and kernel mode driver framework. I also faced same problem a while few days back with my fathers Galaxy note 3 Neo Are you having lolypop or later android version? SamSungUSB DRiver :: https://androidmtk.com/download-samsung-usb-drivers any way all above i mentioned and with kies and following driver should solve If any problem arise , feel free to PM Me Edited June 1, 2016 by Dibya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Each person has his/her own needs and expectations... Some found XP insufficient even when it was at its peak of support and have looked to newer systems to provide additional capacity and stability. Others have found 32 bit XP a good fit for their computing needs and have used it beneficially in all the time since. There's a lot to be said for an operating system environment remaining stable for the better part of 2 decades. For one thing, it gives us the richness of the applications that have been developed for it, which may be Windows single greatest strength. There are clearly still things XP users are polishing up today, and XP enthusiasts are still getting better at using it and managing it. The important thing is that XP and subsequent Windows releases are all derivatives of the virtual memory system architecture first pioneered by Dave Cutler for Digital Equipment Corporation operating systems in the 1970s, then re-implemented for Microsoft as NT in the 1990s. It's a testament to the timeless goodness of the design of that architecture that even today the kernel refuses to crumple under the oppressive weight of the garbage Microsoft has been hanging all over it. -Noel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibya Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Really true XP is Really Stable OS and It is very fast due to its lightweight character in nature far faster than windows 7/8.1/10. Reason it refuses to die after a 2decades Windows XP is based on Server Standard Kernel . If some one donot like it look no problem , XP has millions of theme ling in web also few hundreds of transformation packs. Windows XP Forever!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechKitten 360+ Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 On 10/18/2015 at 4:00 PM, submix8c said: "Are old people really obsolete?" No. They still function quite well, thank you. And, yes, some of us take certain medicines to prevent "viruses" and keep certain protections to prevent "trojans". Currently, the XP Updates (medicine/protections) have been archived across the WWW, intact, taken directly from MS. If you wish to have them all (just in case you need them, like "medicine"), ask and we'll give a link to a Downloader that will get them for you (your very own copy). If you still know where to get all the updates in a downloader- then please send me the link, as lately my windows update on XP has not worked, and that is on SP3 from Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Download WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6-x86.exe; extract WUA-Downlevel.exe from inside it, using 7z; run it from a CMD Box with the /wuforce option. Do not forget to hide KB2934207 (the nag), before downloading updates. After you get all that's offered for XP SP3, you may want to implement the POSReady trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mixit Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 (edited) 21 hours ago, TechKitten 360+ said: lately my windows update on XP has not worked, and that is on SP3 from Microsoft. In addition to what @dencorso said above, you may also need to enable TLS 1.0 in Internet Explorer options as the WU website no longer accepts SSL 2.0/3.0 secure connections. Internet Options > Advanced tab > Security section (scroll to the very bottom) > check Use TLS 1.0. For improved security, it's also good to uncheck Use SSL 3.0 and especially Use SSL 2.0 - unless you need to visit any specific websites not capable of anything better. I'd recommend unchecking both and turning them back on only if some site actually stops working after that. Edited September 6, 2016 by mixit finally figured out how to do user mentions properly... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdfox7 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 3 hours ago, mixit said: In addition to what @dencorso said above, you may also need to enable TLS 1.0 in Internet Explorer options as the WU website no longer accepts SSL 2.0/3.0 secure connections. Internet Options > Advanced tab > Security section (scroll to the very bottom) > check Use TLS 1.0. For improved security, it's also good to uncheck Use SSL 3.0 and especially Use SSL 2.0 - unless you need to visit any specific websites not capable of anything better. I'd recommend unchecking both and turning them back on only if some site actually stops working after that. This is correct, SSL 3.0 does not work any longer, websites are looking for TLS. When using Internet Explorer 6 on XP (only for legacy testing), my college Outlook 365 does not load with SSL, only TLS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 If using Microsoft Update, you can also start it indirectly, just run from a CMD Box: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\muweb.dll,LaunchMUSite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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